IT'S just over a year since the monstrous Macondo oil spillage was finally stopped on July 15, 2010 - more than three months after the devastating explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 people and injured 17 others.

IF EVER there was an issue that has resulted in some of the most outrageous and irresponsible commentary from people who really ought to know better, it has to be the possible consequences of Scottish independence on Scotland's energy policy.